News in Brief Building Better Prisons: Can an Architect Change the Way People Think About Incarceration? Raphael Sperry is leading a movement to keep architects and designers from working on spaces designed for solitary confinement and execution. See More
News in Brief The Pleasures—and Ecological Benefits—of River Snorkeling In praise of river snorkeling, a pastime for fish obsessives that also reminds riparian activists what they’re protecting. See More
News in Brief You Gotta Have Friends: The Female Buddy System of Politics As women ascend higher in politics, one key network often gets overlooked: the power of their group of… See More